I also hope to God that if he is sentenced to die, justice is carried out as fast as possible.

Otherwise, the whole country - but especially the families of the dead and the physically and psychologically battered survivors of the bombing -- will be kept waiting while the legal appeals process drags on.

It's already been too long. It's been almost two years since Tsarnaev was caught.

The names of the three innocents his bombs killed - Krystle Campbell, Lingzi Lu and Martin Richard, who was 8 -- have been largely forgotten by the rest of us.

Has anyone outside Boston ever heard the names of the 17 people who had their arms or legs blown off?

Meanwhile, the name Tsarnaev - a name that should be forgotten by the world as soon as possible - haunts the whole country.

It must be hell in Boston. As long as he is alive, his victims will be forced to relive the worst moments of their lives over and over as his appeal crawls through the judicial process.

Even if he gets the death penalty, it won't happen quick. It never does, except maybe in Texas.